Ah, Tom Brevoort and your continuing to entertain and educate the world with your theme week blogs:
There are times in this business when you hit the ball wrong. There are times when something misfires, or a creator disappears, or events larger than you conspire to screw up a project. And then, there are projects on which everything goes more-or-less right, but still fail to click with an audience. These are the comics I don’t apologize for, the comics that I’m still very happy with and proud of, despite what anybody else thinks.
First up: Marvels Comics: Codename X-Men, a semi-forgotten Mark Millar/Sean Philips comic from the turn of the century…
August 7th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
That was a good book. I think it burned fans because it pointed up how seriously absurd and pessimistic and hateful Claremont’s worldview could get.
August 7th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
From memory, I think Tom’s overstating the negative reaction to the book. My recollection is that it just sank without trace.
It’s not a very good book – it’s a single gag stretched to breaking point, and they could have made the same point just as well in five pages. As a full length story, it doesn’t work, because there’s no conceivable reason to care about the plot.
August 8th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Marvels Comics was a pretty bizarre idea anyway.